Samsung Galaxy XR hands-on: It’s like a less expensive Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional and launches in the present day

[ad_1] Watching the primary couple of minutes of KPop Demon Hunters on Samsung’s Galaxy XR headset, I believe Apple’s Imaginative and prescient Professional is likely to be cooked.

It’s not as a result of the Galaxy XR — which Samsung previously teased as Mission Moohan — is that significantly better than the Imaginative and prescient Professional. It’s that the expertise is comparable, however you get a lot extra bang in your buck. Particularly, Galaxy XR prices $1,799 in comparison with the Imaginative and prescient Professional’s astronomical $3,499. The headset launches within the US and Korea in the present day, and to lure in additional prospects, Samsung and Google are providing an “explorer pack” with every headset that features a free yr of Google AI Professional, Google Play Go, and YouTube Premium, YouTube TV for $1 a month for 3 months, and a free season of NBA League Go.

Did I point out it’s additionally considerably lighter and extra comfy than the Imaginative and prescient Professional?

Oh, and it comes with a local Netflix app. Who's going to get a Imaginative and prescient Professional now? Properly, in all probability people who want Mac energy for work and are really embedded in Apple’s ecosystem. However a variety of different persons are in all probability going to need this as a substitute.

These had been the ideas working by means of my head whereas I acquired my second official demo of Samsung’s headset forward of in the present day’s announcement. I’d gotten a demo of a Moohan prototype final December, however this was the ultimate iteration of that product. There are a couple of notable adjustments. The entrance piece is extra cushioned than I remembered from my final demo, and I lastly acquired to attempt the detachable backside gentle seal. However in any other case, not a lot has modified.

The {hardware} nonetheless seems like a Imaginative and prescient Professional combined with a Meta Quest 3. There aren’t creepy eyes on the entrance display, although there may be nonetheless a glass panel that homes a number of cameras to seize your environment and hand gestures. There are mini-LEDs inside that assist 4K decision and as much as 90Hz refresh charges, which ought to make scrolling and video games look clean. Samsung guarantees as much as 2.5 hours of battery life, proper on a par with the Imaginative and prescient Professional.

<img alt="Galaxy XR headset" data-chromatic="ignore" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-nimg="fill" class="x271pn0" style="position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url("data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' %3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3C/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR42mN8+R8AAtcB6oaHtZcAAAAASUVORK5CYII='/%3E%3C/svg%3E")" sizes="(max-width: 639px) 100vw, (max-width: 1023px) 50vw, 700px" srcset="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/Moohan_1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.073421439060198%2C100%2C99.85315712188&w=256 256w, https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/Moohan_1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.073421439060198%2C100%2C99.85315712188&w=376 376w, https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/Moohan_1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.073421439060198%2C100%2C99.85315712188&w=384 384w, https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/Moohan_1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.073421439060198%2C100%2C99.85315712188&w=415 415w, https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/Moohan_1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.073421439060198%2C100%2C99.85315712188&w=480 480w, https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/Moohan_1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.073421439060198%2C100%2C99.85315712188&w=540 540w, https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/Moohan_1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.073421439060198%2C100%2C99.85315712188&w=640 640w, https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/Moohan_1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.073421439060198%2C100%2C99.85315712188&w=750 750w, https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/Moohan_1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.073421439060198%2C100%2C99.85315712188&w=828 828w, https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/Moohan_1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.073421439060198%2C100%2C99.85315712188&w=1080 1080w, https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/Moohan_1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.073421439060198%2C100%2C99.85315712188&w=1200 1200w, https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/Moohan_1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.073421439060198%2C100%2C99.85315712188&w=1440 1440w, https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/Moohan_1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.073421439060198%2C100%2C99.85315712188&w=1920 1920w, https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/Moohan_1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.073421439060198%2C100%2C99.85315712188&w=2048 2048w, https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/Moohan_1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.073421439060198%2C100%2C99.85315712188&w=2400 2400w" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/Moohan_1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C0.073421439060198%2C100%2C99.85315712188&w=2400"/> It certain seems like a Imaginative and prescient Professional. Picture: Owen Grove, The Verge

There’s no detachable strap — it’s all a light-weight plastic with a cushioned again piece and a dial that you just use to regulate tightness. The supplies don’t really feel as premium because the Imaginative and prescient Professional. However plastic is simpler to wash than cloth, and once I slip it onto my head, it’s considerably lighter, and the load is distributed extra evenly. (The primary Imaginative and prescient Professional was extraordinarily front-heavy, however a brand new strap helps lots with that.) It took till the top of the 30-minute demo for me to start out feeling some rigidity.

A lot of the expertise contained in the headset is much like the Imaginative and prescient Professional that I can think about Apple’s attorneys bristling. There’s a high-resolution passthrough, although I wouldn’t name it crystal clear. The headset tracks what you’re taking a look at, and also you pinch your fingers to pick. One distinction is that there’s a Quest-like cursor while you level at menus and XR components, making it a smidge simpler to inform if the proper factor is highlighted. In any other case, the interface is a Google-flavored model of what you’ll discover in a Imaginative and prescient Professional.

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Function-wise, there’s all the things from spatial photographs and immersive environments to blowing up a number of browser home windows for max productiveness. There’s additionally automated spatialization for current 2D content material. As in, once I go to YouTube to observe a current Vergecast episode, a 3D model of my colleague David Pierce leaps ahead from the video.

Google and Samsung are eager to level out that this Android XR headset has Gemini. In reality, at a small keynote speech for the press, executives from each firms emphasised that this system has “AI on the core.”

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That implies that if, for some cockamamie purpose, you resolve to learn a bodily journal with this headset on, you possibly can Circle to Search any attention-grabbing merchandise you occur upon and look at them in digital Chrome. When viewing an immersive 3D map within the Google Maps app, you possibly can ask Gemini questions on your environment. If you happen to’re viewing a photograph or YouTube video, you can begin a Gemini Reside session, share your display with the AI, and ask it questions. Whereas taking a look at a photograph of a fuzzy quadruped at Machu Picchu, Gemini instructed me that I used to be, the truth is, taking a look at a llama and never an alpaca. It then proceeded to inform me llama info. In the midst of watching a 3D YouTube video of an Icelandic volcano erupting. Gemini mistakenly recognized it as a volcano in Hawaii. So, you recognize, there are limitations.

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I’m not satisfied that the typical particular person will ever need these costly, high-tech XR headsets. You may argue Galaxy XR can be lifeless on arrival, particularly because the zeitgeist appears to be shifting closely towards good glasses. However for individuals who do need headsets? On paper, the Galaxy XR headset is the significantly better worth. You’re getting an analogous consumption expertise. It’s almost half the value. (Heck, it prices lower than a Z Fold 7!) It’s a lot simpler to put on for an extended time frame.

There’s a large swath of content material, and also you get entry to Google apps like YouTube and Maps, amongst others. If you happen to assume AI is a promoting level, Gemini is built-in into this headset much more successfully than Siri is within the Imaginative and prescient Professional. And, in comparison with devices like telephones, tablets, and computer systems, these headsets are a lot simpler to make use of as standalone gadgets. However the preferred use case we’ve seen up to now for these headsets is utilizing them as your personal private theater. The Galaxy XR could lack a few of the Imaginative and prescient Professional’s premium polish — and what quantities to the facility of a full-fledged Mac — however, immersive content-wise, it’s adequate.

Plus, if you wish to use it for productiveness, you possibly can solid a Samsung Galaxy Ebook laptop computer display to the headset (although it’s unclear how this compares to casting a Mac to a Imaginative and prescient Professional), reply calls from it, or share information between the headset and different gadgets.

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I’ll caveat all this with a reminder that demos should not the identical as dwelling with a tool. After we get a Galaxy XR headset in for testing, it’s attainable we’ll discover issues that tilt the stability again within the Imaginative and prescient Professional’s favor. I’m curious to see how the M5 Imaginative and prescient Professional — which fits on sale October twenty second — will fare. But when the Galaxy XR holds up as properly in real-life testing because it has in demos, then there’s even much less purpose to purchase a Imaginative and prescient Professional.

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